Month: August 2009

August 18, 2009

Grigory Pasko: Holiday of Champions

Turkey. Holiday. All Inclusive… Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. In Antalya (Turkey), the International Congress of Journalists has ended. As a rank-and-file participan...
August 18, 2009

Blaming the Ingush Police

About 20 people were murdered and 138 injured, most of them police officers, when a suicide bomber drove a truck containing some 400 kilos of explosive into the police station.  Unfortunately for the freshly bereaved surviving family members ...
August 18, 2009

The Benevolent Tsar and the Unruly Noblemen

From Nikolai Petrov’s column in the Moscow Times: President Dmitry Medvedev, however, has not been able to manage a similar line of communication with the people, even with the careful selection of participants and the prior agreement of que...
August 18, 2009

Russia and the Energy Charter Treaty

The following letter from the law professor Emmanuel Gaillard, representing the former shareholders of Yukos, was published in the Financial Times. From Prof Emmanuel Gaillard. Sir, Almost unnoticed, Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, announced i...
August 18, 2009

Russian Net Nanny More Like a Big Brother

Just caught this bit of news of the new Russian search engine, playfully entitled “Gogul,” which will allow parents the ability to carefully restrict which websites their kids have access to … although parents are not the ones wh...
August 18, 2009

Our Comments Are Still a Disaster

Just a quick note to let you all know we are currently working through the installation of a new comments system, but in the meantime it is likely that your brilliant thoughts, opinions, and death threats may fall through the cracks and disappear ...
August 18, 2009

Energy Blast – August 18, 2009

Yesterday’s fatal accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydropower plant will present a considerable setback in Russia’s attempts to increase its power production, says the New York Times.  It will take ‘years rather than mont...
August 18, 2009

Today in Russian Business – August 18, 2009

Banks have tripled their activity levels when it comes to seeking out overdue corporate loans, after President Medvedev berated banks for indulging corporate borrowers.  400 towns that rely on one single employer (such as Pikalyovo) will be e...
August 18, 2009

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – August 18, 2009

TODAY: Violence explodes in Ingushetia; Interior Minister fired. Wall rumored to be built between Georgia and Abkhazia; Georgia to leave CIS.  Russian diplomats expelled.  Dozens missing in hydropower plant disaster.  Ship found. Pr...